The article examines the theoretical foundations and evolution of the innovation process under accelerated technological development and the emergence of the seventh technological paradigm. The shift from linear to systemic multi-level models is shown to be driven by industrial development and growing global industrial integration. Special attention is paid to institutional and infrastructural mechanisms and to the supranational mega-mechanism shaping countries’ integration into global innovation chains. The importance of effective innovation mechanisms for states undergoing industrial-innovation transformation is substantiated.

The article is devoted to the behavior of economic entities in the investment process in the theory of Keynes. In modern conditions of the formation of the information paradigm of socio-economic development, there is a growing interest in the issues of implementing the investment process, which is due, on the one hand, to the transition of all technological systems and complexes from the analog to the digital sphere, and on the other, to the need to stimulate investment of economic entities in order to create a basis for sustainable economic growth.